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Issue Details

Issue #42
Published August 2008
Cover Price 2.99 USD
Pages 36
Editing Tom Brevoort; Molly Lazer (Assistant)
Notes Cover sports Secret Invasion trade dress; Cover is a tribute to the cover of Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #221 by Hannigan and Breeding.

Cover Details

Characters Skrull Versions of Power Man [Luke Cage]; Spider-Man; Wolverine; Dazzler; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Jocasta; Invisible Woman; Daredevil; Ant-Man [Hank Pym]; Hulk; She-Hulk; Black Bolt; Spider-Woman; Silver Surfer
Genre superhero
Pencils Aleksi Briclot (Painted)
Inks Aleksi Briclot (Painted)
Colors Aleksi Briclot (Painted)
Letters Typeset
Notes Cover sports Secret Invasion trade dress; Cover is a tribute to the cover of Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #221 by Hannigan and Breeding.

1 page New Avengers recap "Credits and Recap"

Genre superhero
Letters Typeset

23 page New Avengers story "Untitled"

Characters FEATURE: Spider-Woman [Skrull Empress]; GUESTS: Skrulls; Skrull Valentina De Fontaine; Skrull Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]; CAMEOS: Nick Fury; Shroud; Dr. Strange; High Evolutionary; Tigra; Modred the Mystic; Morgan Le Fey; Enforcer; Wolverine; Iron Man; Captain America; Thor; Madame Web; Brothers Grimm; Werewolf by Night; Spider-Man; Luke Cage; Matt Murdock [Daredevil]; SHIELD; Sentry; Jarvis; Maria Hill; She-Hulk; Black Widow; Colossus; Emma Frost [White Queen]; Kitty Pryde
Synopsis The Skrull Empress transforms herself completely into Spider-Woman and begins to insinuate herself into the lives of earth's heroes while secretly manipulating events with her fellow aliens which directly effect important events such as the House of M and the super hero Civil War.
Genre superhero
Script Brian Michael Bendis
Pencils Jim Cheung
Inks John Dell
Colors Justin Ponsor
Letters Richard Starkings and Comicraft's Albert Deschesne